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InDepth headlines national business sports cricket regional entertainment technology world travel autos health | in-depth coverage > Olympic Games 2004 > Olympics: Anju finishes sixth, women's relay team makes final 09.59 IST 28th Aug 2004 By IndiaExpress Bureau India's Anju Bobby George leaped to a new national mark which was not enough to land her a medal in the women's long jump event at the Olympic Stadium in Athens Friday while the national women's 4x400m relay team surprised everyone to make it to tomorrow's title round. The 27-year-old Anju, with the whole country's fervently praying for a podium finish, had a flying start in the long jump final with a leap of 6.83m, thus bettering her own national mark by a whopping nine centimetres. However, the Customs officer appeared tense and the pressure of expectations seemed to have weighed down her as she gradually slid down the perch and hit a low of 6.61m in her fifth try before fouling her sixth and final attempt to go out of medal contention with a sixth place finish. Anju, ranked sixth in the world, did her best to become the first Indian medallist in athletics, but her try was not good enough. Even as the long jump event was in progress, the women's 4x400m relay squad of Rajwinder Kaur, K M Beenamol, Chitra K Soman and national one-lap record holder Manjit Kaur dipped under the Indian mark to storm into the final by finishing third in their semi-final heat. The Indian quartet came home in 3 minutes, 26.89 seconds, bettering their own earlier mark of 3:27.35 set in Colombo this June, to gain automatic qualification for the final and emulate the feat of the national foursome, including P T Usha and Shiny Wilson, in the Los Angeles Games in 1984. in-depth coverage > Olympic Games 2004 > |
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